Agenda item

Members' Development and Training Programme

Report of the Assistant Chief Executive and Chief Digital Officer

Minutes:

The Committee received information in relation to the Members’ Development and Training Programme as contained within the circulated report.

Members commented that there was a wide and comprehensive range of training opportunities available to Members. Officers informed Members that training had been arranged for Scrutiny Members in September with Ian Bottrill regarding lines of enquiry and topic selection.

Members identified the following priority areas for the Member Training Programme for the remainder of the civic year 2018/19:

·        Social Media

·        Chairing skills (for Council meetings and meetings within community wards)

·        Committee Procedures (following the update to the Constitution by the Head of Legal Services)

·        Income Generation and Commercialisation

RESOLVED:

That a Member Training Programme be drafted for consideration by the Committee at the meeting on the 7 November 2018.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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